People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — A Rare Treat. [ARTICLE]

A Rare Treat.

Prof. Wm. Goetzes Band of 33 pieces heard hei-e yestei'day with Cook & Whitby’s English Circus was, without exception, the finest w T e have ever listened to. Their rendering of the classical overtures of “Win. Tell” and “Semiramide” delighted thousands at the afternoon performance and in the evening the magnificent strains of Wagner’s tremendous “Tannliauser” filled the immense canvass, packed to the ring bank, with enraptured auditoi-s. Prof. Muller, our Albany maesti'o, states that there is but one other band in America capable of playing this music at all, and that is Gilmore’s. To musicians we have only to say that this matchless organization is composed of five clarionets, 2 flutes, 2 piccolos, 1 sololetto, 2 saxophones, 2 French horns, 2 bassoons, 2 oboes, 5 cornets, 2 altos, 2 baritones, 2 tubas, 1 double b bass, snare and bass drum and bell player, and every man an artist. We have not space to mention the performance in detail, but will say it was a century ahead of any other circus that ever visited Albany and easily made good its claim of being the “foremost show of all this world.” A visit to it bestows a

liberal education on its patrons. —Albany Enquirer.